Double-Exposure or Not?

PGraham3

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Howdy, APUG!
https://www.lomography.com/homes/pmonroe/photos/22544048
I recently uploaded a street self-portrait taken with an old Yashica J-3 and I noticed something quite funny about it. I honestly do not know how it happened, but there are two different images of me in the reflections in both top-bottom lenses. The top reflection appears to match the big reflection that can slightly be seen in the glass window, and also the piece of reflection that can be seen in the camera on the right. However, the bottom-lens reflection appears to be a phantom reflection of myself. How did this happen? The only explanation that I can surmise is that it's part of a double-exposure. I originally took this exact shot twice, but first or second shot may not have been developed, etc, and there is a small 20% snippet of a similar photo with the rest being cut/off. But camera reflection on the right is exact in both pics.
Any ideas? Could this be a double-exposure or am I missing something?
-Paul


 

jim10219

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What I see is a picture of you from two different angles in the two lenses of the TLR. Then there is a reflection of you in the glass that kind of ghosts over the whole thing. And lastly, there is a slight reflection of you being reflected off the TLR lens, onto the other side of the glass, and then back onto the TLR lens.
 

Sirius Glass

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You are seeing different images due to parallax. This is not a surprise.
 

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Looks like the stamping of the "Rollei F&H" logo in the center of the taking-lens cap has obscured the reflection of your camera and caused some distortion of the image.

You can see the effect more clearly in the image below:

 
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